A maximally-graded invertible cubic threefold that does not admit a full exceptional collection of line bundles

We show that there exists a cubic threefold defined by an invertible polynomial that, when quotiented by the maximal diagonal symmetry group, has a derived category that does not have a full exceptional collection consisting of line bundles. This provides a counterexample to a conjecture of Lekili and Ueda.

Troisi\`eme groupe de cohomologie non ramifi\'ee d'un solide cubique sur un corps de fonctions d'une variable

En combinant une m\'ethode de C. Voisin avec la descente galoisienne sur le groupe de Chow en codimension $2$, nous montrons que le troisi\`eme groupe de cohomologie non ramifi\'ee d'un solide cubique lisse d\'efini sur le corps des fonctions d'une courbe complexe est nul. Ceci implique que la conjecture de Hodge enti\`ere pour les classes de degr\'e 4 vaut pour les vari\'et\'es projectives et lisses de dimension 4 fibr\'ees en solides cubiques au-dessus d'une courbe, sans restriction sur les fibres singuli\`eres. --------------- We prove that the third unramified cohomology group of a smooth cubic threefold over the function field of a complex curve vanishes. For this, we combine a method of C. Voisin with Galois descent on the codimension $2$ Chow group. As a corollary, we show that the integral Hodge conjecture holds for degree $4$ classes on smooth projective fourfolds equipped with a fibration over a curve, the generic fibre of which is a smooth cubic threefold, with arbitrary singularities on the special fibres. Comment: in French

Irrationality of generic cubic threefold via Weil's conjectures

An arithmetic method of proving the irrationality of smooth projective 3-folds is described, using reduction modulo [Formula: see text]. It is illustrated by an application to a cubic threefold, for which the hypothesis that its intermediate Jacobian is isomorphic to the Jacobian of a curve is contradicted by reducing modulo 3 and counting points over appropriate extensions of [Formula: see text]. As a spin-off, it is shown that the 5-dimensional Prym varieties arising as intermediate Jacobians of certain cubic 3-folds have the maximal number of points over [Formula: see text] which attains Perret's and Weil's upper bounds.